I.furnished with stings or prickles, thorny, prickly.
I. Lit., of animals and plants: “animalia,” Plin. 20, 22, 91: “bruchus,” Vulg. Jer. 51, 27: “herbae,” Plin. 24, 19, 119: “ictus,” a puncture made by a sting, Plin. 20, 21, 84, § 223.—
II. Fig.
A. Stinging, pointed, sharp: “istaec ... aculeata sunt, animum fodicant,” Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 30: “litterae,” Cic. Att. 14, 18, 1.—
B. Subtle, cunning: “contorta et aculeata sophismata,” Cic. Ac. 2, 24.
